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Shōgun Finale Recap: Scholar of the Wind
This story’s conclusion is just a matter of playing out what has already been set in motion.
From another, and I suspect this will be the way most viewers who’ve stuck with the show will see it, it’s the finale the series needs, one more concerned with its characters and the overarching story of how nations get made than sword-clanging action (not that Shōgun has lacked that either). Their arrival sheds some light on both developments when Omi asks for his uncle’s swords and Muraji — the Ajiro fisherman and Toranaga spy we haven’t seen in a while but who will come to play a sizable role in this episode — tells him he suspects Christians are behind the sinking of his ship. If this seems odd, it is, or at least until Muraji lets Blackthorne know that he speaks fluent Portuguese, that he’s a samurai, and that he has been acting as Toranaga’s spy among the Catholics for years (in the process becoming a true believer of his adopted faith).
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